White House Agrees to Share Drone Memos

By

Adam Entous And

Evan Perez

Updated Feb. 6, 2013 9:17 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama agreed Wednesday to provide congressional intelligence committees access to a classified justification for the administration's extrajudicial killing of American terrorist suspects overseas, ending a more than yearlong dispute with lawmakers who demanded the document.

Members of the Judiciary and Intelligence committees first sought the Justice Department's classified Office of Legal Counsel opinion after a Central Intelligence Agency drone strike in 2011 killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an...